By 1917 Lillie and her husband J.Charles Barlar(JC)were living in St. Louis, Missouri. On Friday night February 8, 1918 Lillie had written a letter to her mother Nettie G. Croom and her younger sister, Nettie Lee Croom. The tone was normal for the time. She mentioned the ailments of her boy Billy and commented on the poverty conditions of mother and the remaining children at home in Atlanta, wishing she could do something for them. Her own situation was not much better. She had a slight cold at the time. She had picked a bump on her chin and sometime through the weekend blood poisioning had set in. Her face and throat began to swell and she went into the hospital Sunday or Monday. Tuesday morning the 12th, the swelling closed her throat and she died of suffocation. The letter was never mailed and J.C. handed it to her mother before the funeral in Atlanta.
Source: Original letter and oral history from Nettie Lee (Croom) Strickland,
Lillie's younger sister. (1989).
Source: Original letter and oral history from Nettie Lee (Croom) Strickland,
Lillie's younger sister. (1989).
By 1917 Lillie and her husband J.Charles Barlar(JC)were living in St. Louis, Missouri. On Friday night February 8, 1918 Lillie had written a letter to her mother Nettie G. Croom and her younger sister, Nettie Lee Croom. The tone was normal for the time. She mentioned the ailments of her boy Billy and commented on the poverty conditions of mother and the remaining children at home in Atlanta, wishing she could do something for them. Her own situation was not much better. She had a slight cold at the time. She had picked a bump on her chin and sometime through the weekend blood poisioning had set in. Her face and throat began to swell and she went into the hospital Sunday or Monday. Tuesday morning the 12th, the swelling closed her throat and she died of suffocation. The letter was never mailed and J.C. handed it to her mother before the funeral in Atlanta.
Source: Original letter and oral history from Nettie Lee (Croom) Strickland,
Lillie's younger sister. (1989).
Source: Original letter and oral history from Nettie Lee (Croom) Strickland,
Lillie's younger sister. (1989).
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